War, drama, by Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1953.
Fear and Desire is the first feature by Stanley Kubrick, a totally independent film financed by the director himself and by a fundraiser between friends and relatives. Made with a small crew, Kubrick also took care of the editing and photograph...

Drama, by Kaneto Shindō, Japan, 1952.
Takako Ishikawa is a teacher off the coast of Hiroshima and has not returned to his atomic bombed city in 4 years. His trip to Hiroshima becomes a journey to his destroyed homeland, in search of surviving old friends. The city has almost been rebuilt, but the...

Adventure, by Fritz Lang, Germany, 1919.
In San Francisco, Kay Hoog tells friends at her club that she found a message in a bottle. Inside is a map drawn by a missing man, a well-known Harvard professor. The message tells of a lost Inca civilization that possesses an immense treasure.

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Drama, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1962.
The plot revolves around a group of people who gather in a sumptuous villa for a gala dinner. However, after dinner, they find that they are unable to leave the villa, despite the fact that the doors and windows are barred and the exits apparently blocked. Wha...

Comedy, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1963
Simón, a long-bearded holy man, lives on a column in the middle of the desert, almost in total fasting. People worship him as a Messiah. He performs miracles, undergoes temptations from Satan, who torments him under the guise of a handsome woman. A series of g...

Sci-fi, drama, by Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico.
A man, nicknamed The thief, who represents the Fool's card in the Tarot, lies unconscious in a desert, among swarms of flies. When he wakes up he encounters a footless and handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords. The two become friends ...

Horror, by Roger Corman, United States, 1963.
Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), a French soldier, loses contact with his unit and is forced to wander alone near the Baltic Sea. While searching for his regiment, he spots Helene (Sandra Knight), a mysterious beauty, walking alone. Enchanted, Du...

Drama, Noir, by Samuel Fuller, 1964, United States.
Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville, after moving away from the big city to escape her former protector. She meets her local police captain Griff who hosts her in her apartment, but then invites her to leave ...

Drama, by by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
The story takes place in Kyoto and follows Eiko, a young woman who wants to become a geisha and asks the older Miyoharu to teach her the trade. One of her first clients tries to rape her but Eiko violently defends herself and sends him to the hospital. A...

Drama, fantasy, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
Japan, late 16th century: the potter Genjurō and his brother Tobei live with their wives Miyagi and Ohama in a village in the Omi region; Genjurō, convinced that he can earn a lot of money by selling his goods in the nearby city, goes to the county...

Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ...

Drama, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1951.
Noriko, a secretary from Tokyo, resides in Kamakura with her family along with her parents Shūkichi and Shige, her elder brother Kōichi, a doctor, her wife Fumiko and their 2 boys Minoru and Isamu. Noriko's friends are divided into 2 groups, married and single...

Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936.
Ayako Murai is a telephone operator for the pharmaceutical company Asai, in the city of Osaka in 1930. To pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest for not repaying a loan, she agrees to become her employer's mistress. work. After p...

Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1951.
Bachelor Shinnosuke falls in love with Miss Oyu, the companion of his younger sister Shizu who visits him as a future bride. The family taboo prevents Shinnosuke from marrying Oyu. He marries Shizu without consummating their marriage so that Shinnosuke can ...

Science fiction, by Robert Wise, United States, 1952.
Based on the short story Goodbye to the Master by Harry Bates, the film is set in Washington. A flying saucer lands in a park and a crowd, even if frightened, crowds around, while soldiers with armored vehicles arrive. A human-like extraterres...

Documentary, by Jean Vigo, France, 1930.
With an old used movie camera bought with the money loaned by his wife's father, Jean Vigo shoots a documentary about Nice. Meeting Boris Kaufman changes the French director's initial project, which will be influenced by Dziga Vertov's operator. The nature...

Documentary, by Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1928.
One of the most important avant-garde films of the "city symphony" genre, inspired by Dziga Vertov's "The Man with the Camera" and Soviet editing theories. The film marks the passage of the artist Walter Ruttmann from abstract cinema to reality cine...

Drama, by Ko Nakahira, Japan, 1959.
The sweet life of the rich young Japanese of the Sun Tribe subculture which was inspired by the western lifestyle in the late 1950s, between lust and violence, water skiing and speedboats. A story of love, passion and betrayal. Two brothers fall in love with th...

Drama, by Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1969.
Based on the play by Gholam-Hossein Saedi, probably inspired by an Iranian legend that Prince Buyid Majd ad-Dawla considered himself a cow. Hassan loves his only cow more than anything else, a source of sustenance. When he leaves the village for a short time...

Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

Thriller, Noir, by Ida Lupino, United States, 1953.
Two friends, Roy Collins (O'Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Lovejoy) are driving to go fishing in the Mexican Gulf of California city of San Felipe. Just south of Mexicali, they give a ride to a hitchhiker, Myers, who draws a weapon and takes them hos...

Thriller, noir, by Paul Guilfoyle, United States, 1955.
The unfortunate Los Angeles engineer and contractor Edward Shaw (Keith Andes) is approached by Doris Hillman (Angela Lansbury) with a proposal: to buy land, on which he could surely build houses using his experience. Doris' husband, Gus Hill...

Thriller, noir, by Edgar G. Ulmer, United States, 1945.
Al Roberts, an unemployed pianist, hitchhikes. After getting a ride, he arrives at a restaurant in Reno, Nevada. Another restaurant customer plays a tune on the jukebox: Al is upset because it reminds him of his life in New York City. He rem...

Horror, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany, 1932.
Late in the evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn near the town of Courtempierre and rents a room to sleep. Gray is suddenly disturbed by an old man, who enters the room and leaves a square package on the table: "To be opened on my death" is written ...